THERE is something comforting in a dictionary: right angles, a pleasing heft, reassuringly rigid covers. A new one is tight, a bright sheaf of discoveries yet to be made; an old one is a musty but ...

Last summer, Tim Lomas flew from London to Orlando to attend the fourth annual congress of the International Positive Psychology Association—held, naturally, at Walt Disney World. As Lomas wandered ...

A negative thing about Urdu dictionaries is that the writer of an Urdu dictionary has rarely been spared by critics as most of the Urdu dictionaries have been found lacking in one area or another.

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Modern lexicography and semantics have evolved into an interdisciplinary field that integrates traditional dictionary compilation with cognitive linguistic theories and computational methodologies.

John Simpson quotes his wife’s description of him as “an ordinary bloke in an extraordinary job.” That job was the editorship of the Oxford English Dictionary, a career he recounts in a genial memoir, ...

The Deccan college post-graduate and research institute will set up country's first-ever Department of Sanskrit Lexicography, starting from academic year 2010-11. PUNE: The Deccan college ...